Synopsis
Set against the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942, this overly-ambitious, comedy-drama focuses on the relationship between its two central characters, Leon Castelli (Roger Hanin) a half-Algerian, half-French bartender, talkative, but with a generous soul, and Etienne Labrouche (Philippe Noiret) the French colonial mayor of the town. Leon gets propositioned on a business deal by an American soldier and joins him in setting up an "underground" night spot in an abandoned airplane hangar that soon catches on and thrives like weeds in a garden. Etienne, in the meantime, starts an affair with the governess of his children and is caught out by his wife, who sends the woman packing. Since the ex-governess needs to support herself somehow, she accepts a waitress job working in the underground nightclub. The word gets out, and before much time has gone by, the nightclub is trashed by a hired gang. Furious at Etienne because he feels this is the mayor's way of paying him back for hiring the governess, Leon picks up a shotgun and goes to Etienne's estate seeking revenge. But fate has other ideas, and when he arrives, Leon discovers that Etienne's father has just died and left a bombshell of a revelation about his parentage that changes everything.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (33)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Soprofilms, Les Films Ariane, Alexandre Films, Partner's Production, Carthago Films
- Co-productions : TF1 Films Production, Société Française de Production (SFP)
- Film exports/foreign sales : StudioCanal Films Limited
- French distribution : Gaumont
Full credits (7)
- Executive Producer : Ariel Zeïtoun
- Screenwriters : Alexandre Arcady, Alain Le Henry, Daniel Saint-Hamont
- Director of Photography : Pierre Lhomme
- Music Composer : Serge Franklin
- Editor : Joële Van Effenterre
- Costume designer : Mic Cheminal
- Production Designer : Tony Egry
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1983
- French release : 07/12/1983
- Runtime : 2 h 14 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 57167
- Visa issue date : 09/12/1983
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
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